{"id":75525,"date":"2014-12-06T00:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-awards-contracts-for-sentinel-6-satellite-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-06T00:52:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T16:52:32","slug":"esa-awards-contracts-for-sentinel-6-satellite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-awards-contracts-for-sentinel-6-satellite-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Awards Contracts for Sentinel 6 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-05-2014] The <b>European Space Agency <\/b>(ESA) has selected <b>Airbus Defence and Space <\/b>as the prime contractor for the Jason CS\/Sentinel 6 Earth observation satellite. <b>Thales Alenia Space France <\/b>is providing the satellite\u2019s main instrument, a radar altimeter that will measure global sea levels with accuracy within a few centimeters. <b>NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory <\/b>(JPL) is also providing instruments.<\/p>\n<p>The one-ton satellite will orbit at an altitude of 1,300 kilometers, repeatedly mapping ocean topography on a global basis starting in 2020. <b>Eumetsat<\/b> will manage the satellite, which is part of the Copernicus Earth observation program, for its five-and-a-half-year mission. Sentinel 6 will leverage technologies and skills gained from the CryoSat program, which also used a radar altimeter on CryoSat 2, launched in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-05-2014] The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus Defence and Space as the prime contractor for the Jason CS\/Sentinel 6 Earth observation satellite. Thales Alenia Space France is providing the satellite\u2019s main instrument, a radar altimeter that will measure global sea levels with accuracy within a few centimeters. NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}